ITT pushes its products beyond their expected operating limits to make sure they are truly engineered for life.

    If you are ever in the vicinity of Salisbury Plain, U.K, you might witness one of the stranger sights you are going to see in your lifetime: water purification units falling from the sky.

    To ensure they can be deployed by the air drop method, the British military sends up a plane with Stella Meta SGU units and supporting equipment – all made by ITT’s Aquious business – and then sends these 900 pound packages plummeting to the ground with parachutes.

    “This is how these pumps are delivered to military units on the front lines, so we need to test their survivability under real-world conditions,” says Chris Howorth, market development manager for Aquious.

    Amazingly, these air drops are one of the milder forms of product testing for Stella Meta’s water purification units. As the primary customer, the British military also subjects them to electromagnetic explosions, exposure to nuclear, biological and chemical contaminants, and rough terrain testing in which they are bounced about mercilessly. The tests are designed to guarantee that the units will work when they reach...

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